Flashpoints

(CT) The Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury celebrated its re-opening on February 28 following a nearly two year, $9 million expansion...

(CT) The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum was awarded $45,454.50 in grant funding by Connecticut Humanities (CTH). The grant will enable...

(CT) The Connecticut Art Trail, one of the first tourism trails in the state, is celebrating 25 years of guiding...

(CT) Yale Center for British Art appointed Martina Droth as its new deputy director and chief curator. Most recently, Droth...

(CT) The Bruce Museum in Greenwich has announced that construction on its renovation and expansion project will begin in October...

(CT) Fairfield University Art Museum (FUAM) marked its 10th anniversary on September 24. To commemorate the important occasion, the Museum...

(ME) Colby College has received a $3.35 million gift in support of the forthcoming Gordon Center for Creative and Performing...

(ME) The Boston-based nonprofit VIA Art Fund (Visionary Initiatives in Art) announced its 2020 grant recipients. The 2020 VIA Grantee...

(ME) The Ogunquit Museum of American Art’s (OMAA) board of directors has announced the appointment of a new executive committee...

(ME) An anonymous donor to the Maine Community Foundation has given $200,000 to 20 community theaters across Maine to help...

(ME) The Center for Maine Contemporary Art (CMCA) Biennial 2020 will open on Saturday, October 3. The virtual event features...

(MA) A memorial to Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King titled The Embrace, will be unveiled October 2022...

(MA) Hyde Square Task Force (HSTF), a nonprofit organization that offers arts and creative youth development programs to young people...

(MA) The Armenian Museum of America recently acquired the #PeaceForArmenians cleats created by Berj Najarian, director of football/head coach administration...

(MA) Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt), in partnership with the City of Boston, announced the 16 artists and...

(MA) The City of Boston, in partnership with The Boston Foundation, and the Barr Foundation have awarded 17 BIPOC (Black,...

(MA) The Eliot School of Fine & Applied Arts in Boston has named Titi Ngwenya as its first director of...

(MA) Mass Cultural Council appointed Michael J. Bobbitt as the agency’s executive director. Effective February 1, 2021, Bobbitt became the...

(MA) Brandeis University has announced Dr. Gannit Ankori as director and chief curator of the Rose Art Museum. Ankori will...

(MA) The Essex Art Center (EAC) board of directors has named Monica Manoski as its new executive director. Manoski joined...

(MA) The Fitchburg Art Museum (FAM) named Lauren Szumita as its next curator. Prior to her role with FAM, Szumita...

(MA) Director and CEO of the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) in Salem, Brian Kennedy stepped down from his position on...

(MA) The Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy announced the upcoming installation of a new public artwork, The Herd, from Boston-based fiber...

(MA) The Fitchburg Art Museum (FAM) appointed Lauren Szumita as its next curator. Beginning January 26, Szumita will oversee FAM’s permanent collection, exhibition...

(MA) After a few months of changes, Boston-based art consultants group L’Attitude Art and Sculpture Gallery will be continuing under the...

(MA) The Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy presents its latest free webinar “Public Art in the Age of COVID” on Thursday...

(MA) The Greenway Conservancy and Friends of Armenian Heritage Park will present the annual celebration Candlelit Labyrinth Walk: In Peace...

(MA) Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt), in partnership with the City of Boston, announced the 16 artists and...

(MA) Persistence, a new year-long environmental sculpture installation, is on view to the public on the Arlington Bikeway through October...

(MA) Cambodian Living Arts and ArtsEmerson present Arts & Healing: Bangsokol Virtual Festival from December 11—20, 2020. The program is...

(MA) To celebrate the upcoming opening of the Boston area’s newest contemporary art gallery, Praise Shadows Art Gallery, the gallery...

(MA) The New England Foundation for the Arts’s (NEFA) National Theater Project (NTP) has announced Double Edge Theatre as the...

(MA) Art Matters Foundation has announced Cambridge-based artist and stage director Charlotte Brathwaite as one of the recipients of its...

(MA) The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), announced the election of Cathy E. Minehan as chair and Edward E....

(MA) Praise Shadows Art Gallery, the Boston area’s newest art gallery, will open in late November 2020 as a hybrid...

(MA) The MassDevelopment Board of Directors approved the launch of the 2021 Massachusetts Cultural Facilities Fund (CFF) grant round, a...

(MA) Artist Sonya Clark was awarded this year’s $35,000 Rappaport Prize by the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum. The Prize,...

(MA) Composer, artist and researcher Tina Tallon was awarded a 2020-2021 fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at...

(MA) Boston’s Society of Arts + Crafts (SA+C) recently announced that artist Aspen Golann was awarded the 2020 John D....

(MA) The Handel and Haydn Society, the oldest performing arts organization in the United States, recently appointed Robert N. Shapiro...

(MA) Boston Seaport debuted its newest contemporary public art installation by ‘Doodle’ artist Jon Burgerman, on September 23. Burgerman’s latest...

(MA) The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) appointed Rosa Rodriguez-Williams as the Museum’s first-ever Senior Director of Belonging and...

(MA) New Art Center appointed Madeleine Delpha as its new director of education. With a BA and MA from New...

(MA) The Provincetown Public Art Foundation, founded in January 2020, chose artist Esteban Del Valle to create a mural in...

(NE) The Black Seed, a national strategic plan to create impact and “thrivability” for Black theater institutions, announced that nearly...

(NE) The Joan Mitchell Foundation announced the 2020 recipients of its annual Painters & Sculptors Grants, which provide 25 artists...

(NE) The Joan Mitchell Foundation announced the 2020 recipients of its annual Painters & Sculptors Grants, which provide 25 artists...

(NE) The New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) has announced the appointment of three new members of NEFA’s Board of Directors. Artist,...

(NE) Artists Sunday will take place on Sunday, November 29. Artists Sunday is an art-focused shopping day the Sunday after...

(NE) The New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) awarded $2.030 million through the National Dance Project (NDP) to support...

(NE) The New England Arts Resilience Fund, part of the national United States Arts Resilience Fund, awarded $1.806 million to...

(NE) On September 15, 2020, three generations of New England artists; Erin Reid, Karen Reid, and Don Munson launched EKD...

(NH) The Currier Museum recently announced its purchase of the George Byron Chandler House in Manchester, NH. The museum announced...

(NH) Studio B, a studio and art gallery owned by wildlife artist Rosemary Conroy, opened in early September in Francestown,...

(NH) Filmmaker Ava DuVernay will be honored by MacDowell in October, which is presenting its first Marian MacDowell Arts Advocacy...

(VT) The Vermont Arts Council released mini-biopics to virtually celebrate the recipients of the 2020 Vermont Arts Awards, which recognize...

(VT) The Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, VT announced its acquisition of a pair of portraits by painter John Singleton Copley....

(VT) Friends of the Vermont State House announced it has selected Middlebury, VT  artist Katie Runde to paint a large-scale...

(VT) Vermont artist Rob Mullen is on a mission to trek across the state to paint its most beautiful vistas....

(VT) Burlington City Arts recently moved its annual art auction online and raised more than $63,000, returning $22,000 to participating...

(VT) Bennington Museum hasannounced the appointment of David Pilachowski as its interim executive director effective October 1. Pilachowski replaces Joshua...

(VT) Erin Bundock was named the recipient of the first-ever South End Arts District studio residency at The Vaults, a...

(VT) JAG Productions, Vermont and New Hampshire’s only Black theater company, received a $100,000 unrestricted COVID-19 Relief Grant in July...